{"id":5263,"date":"2023-01-21T10:34:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T15:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2023-01-21T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T15:42:05","slug":"emperor-norton-day-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/emperor-norton-day-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Emperor Norton Day &#8211; 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to fellow Clamper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bebowhite.com\/\">Bebo White<\/a> for reading my tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/sfmuseum.org\/hist1\/norton.html\">Emperor Norton<\/a> at the annual gathering at His gravesite in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/emperor-nortons-grave\">Woodlawn Cemetery, San Francisco, California (really in Colma)<\/a> with fellow members of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E_Clampus_Vitus\">the Yerba Buena #1 unit of E Vitus Clampus<\/a> this past January 7. (Photos to come).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Homage to Emperor Norton at the 143th Anniversary of His Death<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Look with love and don&#8217;t despair<br \/>\nthe loss of our Dear Emperor.<br \/>\nJust remember He was here.<\/p>\n<p>While others dream of castles,<br \/>\nHe dreamt bridges in the air<br \/>\nand saw us as His near equals.<\/p>\n<p>After the First, there can be none.<br \/>\nWe are proud to be the vassals<br \/>\nof our Norton the only One<\/p>\n<p>Who has been so fit to rule.<br \/>\nAnd rule was what He has done<br \/>\nover all worlds and all people.<\/p>\n<p>He was wise to play the fool!<br \/>\nTraveler, Pause and Be Grateful!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to fellow Clamper Bebo White for reading my tribute to Emperor Norton at the annual gathering at His gravesite in the Woodlawn Cemetery, San Francisco, California (really in Colma) with fellow members of the Yerba Buena #1 unit of E Vitus Clampus this past January 7. (Photos to come). Homage to Emperor Norton at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5269,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions\/5269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}